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		ksec on Feb 14, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Farewell from Rusty Russell Why is he leaving? Am I suppose to know this? Googled a few times and nothing useful came out.

JepZ on Feb 14, 2018 | [–]

His code blog tells you a little more about what he is doing lately:

https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning

RustyRussell on Feb 14, 2018 | | [–]

I started working on Bitcoin three years ago, and finally finished handing over my kernel responsibilities.

Nothing dramatic I'm afraid!

dredmorbius on Feb 19, 2018 | | [–]

Who was the "homeless-looking" guy? Alan Cox?

pwm on Feb 14, 2018 | | [–]

Bitcoin.

matte_black on Feb 14, 2018 | [–]

Retirement I assume. It has been a long time.

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